Parrot Aoi and Raven Ado

After calling in the virgin forest for a long time, no parent bird came out, no bird took care of it, and no bird came out to claim the nest and the chick.

The sunflower parrot who yelled hard for a long time only felt parched, and his originally hoarse voice was now almost like a broken gong.

Aoi, who hadn't paid attention to the bird from the beginning to the end, almost wondered whether the little thing with lowered and trembling wings jumped out of the cracks in the rocks, and didn't have parents or mothers?

The unwilling sunflower parrot stretched out its head and picked up a few branches that fell on the ground, twisted off the new shoots that were still on them and ate them. Although it didn't quench its thirst, it was supposed to moisten its throat, and then raised its chest and puffed up. Sac continued to yell.

This time, its luck was not so bad. After a few sounds, a mountain magpie with a black back and a white belly flew over.

The mountain magpie landed on the cedar branch above Ah Kui's head, condescendingly looked down at the broken bird's nest where Ah Kui was lying, and then said, "Hee hee, it's really Uncle Kui, I heard you over there just now." When hearing the sound, the bird still couldn't believe it."

The sunflower parrot raised its head upon hearing this, and also saw the mountain magpie standing on the branch.

After finding out that it was a familiar bird, he immediately said: "Xiaoshan, you came just in time. If I remember correctly, you live in this forest, please help Aoi to see this nest, and whose family this chick belongs to." .”

As he said that, the sunflower parrot turned sideways and raised its wings, revealing the hairless chick that was originally covered inside.

The chick, which lost its warmth again and was exposed to the cold wind, was obviously very frightened. With its eyes closed, it tried hard to raise its heavy head, opened its small bright yellow mouth, and screamed miserably.

In order to keep the chick from freezing, Ah Kui just lifted it up for a while, and after making sure that the mountain magpie on its head could see clearly, she immediately lowered her wings and wrapped the chick back into the wings again.

The baby bird that returned to Ah Kui's wings was probably frightened by its actions just now, so it stopped screaming and making trouble, but grabbed Ah Kui with its still soft beak with yellow edges. The feathers on the inside of the sunflower's wings refused to let go of anything.

Aoi coaxed a few times, but the chick still gnawed on its feathers. To be honest, this little thing is about the size of a ping pong ball, and the beak has no strength at all. It's actually quite easy to swallow in the mouth of a baby bird.

But Aoi was afraid that pulling it hard would hurt the little bird, so in the end she just didn't care about it, and it could just hold it if it liked. The most important thing now is to find out the parents of the chick.

The mountain magpie has good eyesight, and when Ah Kui raised its wings, it had already seen the little thing clearly.

Just when Ah Kui gave up the idea of ​​pulling the feathers out of the chick's mouth, she heard the mountain magpie chirping a few times above her head and said: "Uncle Kui, if it's this little thing, then you don't have to wait for it My parents are gone, I guess I won't be able to wait."

"Why? Could it be that something happened to the parents of this chick?"

This is the reason Aoi first thought of, and it is also the most common reason for abandoning nests and abandoning cubs in the wild.

"Chacha, no, the raven couple are very good, they just don't want this chick, so they abandoned the nest on their own initiative."

"You said that the couple voluntarily gave up the nest and the chicks?"

It’s no wonder that Ah Kui was surprised. The consequence of birds’ single-minded thinking is that their wild instincts are very strong. Bird parents and mothers who are controlled by various hormones and genetic materials during the brooding period are almost child-rearing machines.

They will go back and forth dozens or even dozens of times a day without hesitation, going to the sea, fishing and removing insects, hunting, hunting, even if they are tired to numb while hunting, they must feed the chicks in the nest waiting to be fed with their mouths open .

Every time the chicks grow up, their parents will lose almost the same weight. After a brooding period, the parents and mothers at least have to shed their skin.

It is very difficult for such parent birds to let them abandon their nests on their own initiative. At least in the 30 years that Ah Kui has lived, very few birds would do this unless they are new couples who just got married and know nothing.

"Are those parents a newlywed couple who just came out of the nest not long ago?"

"Of course not. The raven couple has been paired for several years, and the birds don't even know how many broods they have raised."

"Then why did you abandon it? I saw this little bird, and it doesn't look like it has a physical problem and can't keep it alive."

Ugly is a bit ugly, and thin is also really thin, but with a big frame and strong bones, one can tell at a glance that it is easy to support.

Hearing Akui's question, the mountain magpie tilted its head and thought about it for a while before saying: "I live quite far from here, so I don't know much about the specifics. I just heard the little sparrows say something vaguely before. It is said that a nest of ravens should have many eggs and young, but for some reason, the nest of the raven couple only laid one egg. The egg was very big, and the chicks that hatched were big It was at least one-third bigger than ordinary raven cubs, and the raven couple suspected that the chick might not belong to them, so they moved away after discussing it, and the nest was also abandoned.”

"Could it be that the dove has taken over the magpie's nest? This little thing is not the cuckoo's cub, is it?"

Among the birds, there are indeed some parents who are used to cheating and cheating, laying their own eggs in other birds' nests, and letting other birds raise their young for themselves. Rhododendron is one of the representatives.

But it shouldn't be. The cuckoos that live in their area and have the habit of nesting will be much worse than the raven's. The shape and appearance of the bird's eggs are also worse than the raven's eggs. a lot of.

In addition, birds like ravens are notoriously clever and fierce. Falcons are not afraid of them, so cuckoos who dare to provoke them are rare.

"I don't know about that, anyway, that's what the Raven couple thinks."

"And do you know where they moved?"

"On the top of the back mountain, there is a mountain forest that belongs to the Raven family. This couple was originally a member of that family, and now they have moved back. Uncle Kui, don't you want to take this chick there? Find that raven couple? It’s useless, all birds know about raven’s stubborn temper, once they decide something, they will never repent.”

What the mountain magpie said is absolutely correct, the ravens are as famous in the biological world as their stubborn temper and their intelligence.

But to some extent, the intelligence of ravens is inseparable from their stubborn temper.

Without this kind of obstinate stubbornness, it would be impossible for the ravens to remember so many things that they think are useful to them, and to pass these things on as experience from generation to generation to the next generation of young ravens.

There have been experiments done by human beings, letting humans with special face masks catch a raven in a group of ravens with a net bag, and then let it go.

Five years later, when the experimenter appeared in the colony of the raven colony with that face mask again, almost all the ravens in that colony, especially the young ravens, reacted violently to the masked man. , Alarm calls filled the entire group.

This fully proves that Raven has excellent memory, collective and learning ability.

Aoi knew that trying to persuade a couple of ravens who thought they had been cheated to recognize the chick again was no less difficult than teaching a sparrow to speak human language, basically tantamount to impossible.

Aoi, lying in the broken bird's nest, suddenly felt that things might have exceeded its previous expectations. If the parent bird could not be found, what would happen to the baby bird with its lowered wings?

If it is left here alone, it is estimated that within a few hours, this little life is likely to lose its breath.

Slightly spreading its wings, Ah Kui stared blankly at the baby bird inside, and the baby bird seemed to be aware of Ah Kui's sight, and opened its mouth cautiously towards it, which was the action of a baby bird begging for food.

It can be seen that this young bird, which has just hatched its shell, has never received thoughtful care. Its wrinkled skin that is close to the skeleton is the proof that it has not eaten normally for a long time.

The chicks that Aoi saw before, no matter what stage they were in, were carefully cared for by their masters or parents without exception. The plump, tender and tender appearance was cute and cute, and it was not such an ugly and miserable state at all. .

After finding that his begging action did not get a response, the chick seemed to give up, no longer struggling or making a sound, curled up lifelessly in Aoi's wings, as if waiting for fate to give it a final verdict.

Seeing such a chick, Aoi was moved with compassion, but it still couldn't do nothing, so she decided to take it home.